“Unbridled Things” is, in a good way, a bit heavy for someone’s “Russian prose,” even though it uses fantastic premises as a method. Here, without many plot twists, without noticeable action, thirty years from the life of a country and individual people are shown—whose destinies, even if only slightly, are inseparably intertwined. A book for those who enjoy the meditative absorption of the text, take pleasure in its structure, and feel even small events in the characters’ lives intensely—because any of them can become the beginning of internal changes. From small everyday pieces, a large, shifting, dreamlike reality is constructed.